Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 15:02:27 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333880 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <CANCZdfo41DjRWBovb0soN1SnfeiQ_n3nxpqOKj_HCnuUSZ-fVA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6814.1526761972@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <201805191729.w4JHTvOo032116@repo.freebsd.org> <201805191945.w4JJjMlk017155@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5%2BV5Br%2Bevussw@mail.gmail.com> <6814.1526761972@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message <CANCZdfrMjf8LgwUy4rL53m-XAM9P0fa-cb=cD5+V5Br+evussw@ > mail.gmail.com> > , Warner Losh writes: > > >> > Log: > >> > Restore the all rights reserved language. > > "All Rights Reserved" is boilerplate from the old "Buenos Aires" > copyright convention, (a purely N+S American affair) and it lost > all meaning and relevance for UCB when USA ratified the Berne > Convention 60 years ago. > The US ratified the Berne Convention in 1989, which falls in the middle of the 4.x BSD releases... Relevant for 4.3, but not 4.4. > The final Buenos Aires signatory joined Berne a couple of decades > ago, rendering the convention null and void, and therefore this > boilerplate has no meaning or relevance for anybody. > Right, I get that. However, someone removed it. Even though it's useless at this point, I don't believe we can remove it. Warner
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